Ultra-Efficient Microwave Headlights Almost Here

Today’s cars get more technology jammed into them every day. With navigation systems, Bluetooth, DVD entertainment systems and other gadgets sucking juice out of cars, companies are looking at other ways to reduce electric consumption. 

One such U.K. company, called Ceravision, has created a new type of headlight that it says is even more efficient than LEDs. The technology uses radio frequencies set at the same range as microwave ovens, and bulbs made out of quartz or ceramic materials instead of traditional electrode lamps.

In the video below you can see how ridiculously bright these lamps are when installed in a test car.

If they really can be produced for less money than traditional lamps, and use less electricity, as the company claims, we have no doubt they will become widely adopted by automakers.

Comments

[Eric]

Sweeeet.

[George]

Even with electrodes, HID headlights last for a decade.

[J]

Whatever they do, just don't let those damn SUV put them on!

[GR]

Yay! Another form of headlight to blind oncoming traffic!

[Billy]

I hope these don't become the norm, those would be annoying as hell at night.

[Peppy]

aren't microwaves harmful to us if we look into the oven whiles its on?

[R.L.]

long term microwave exposure = Cancer?

[Ken L.]

There will probably be a warning that states “For Off Road Use Only”. So besides being used on the racetrack, these will end up on SUVs as well. If they should become legal - since they’re so bright, they must be extremely hot; I wonder if it’ll require manufacturers to have warning labels on them, just like the radiators.

[F.W.]

I can see it now: people with pace makers dropping on the sidewalks as these equipped cars roll by!

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Мдяя, что то мне не очень уж эти фары нравятся. Их безопасность еще надо бы хорошенько проверить... =)